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Re: Caching DNS for Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Jul 29 15:57:10 2008
Message-Id: <200807291956.m6TJuOCc000684@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, athena10@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:47:55 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:56:24 -0400
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 18:26 -0400, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote:
> > > > 5. (Optional) Configure the search path to mit.edu
> >
> > I use this on a daily basis, but I'm known not to be a good sample
> > set. Given the number of people using dhcp with their laptops I
> > suspect they're used to having to use FQDNs. OTOH, they may be less
> > tolerant of that for machines actually at MIT.
>
> Machines actually at MIT are likely to have the search path configured
> to mit.edu without our help. This would be more for machines using DHCP
> outside of MIT. Since that's not really our target audience, I probably
> won't implement (5) (especially since it's not trivial), but I thought I
> would bring it up.
I wasn't sure what would happen for machines on MITnet, but not
configured via dhcp (or are we expecting them to all be configured via
dhcp? or are we punting this problem to the underlying OS install and
ignoring it?) Anyhow, I can always fix it myself and don't know how
may other people would care anyway.
Jonathon
